http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Valencian-Community/Calpe/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Spain , Valencian Community , Calpe en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:05 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:03:05 +0000 Hello my name is Paqui.I would like to advance all of you that I have been in Calpe twice and that was an amazing experience.Calpe has fabulous beaches with clear sand. And its most famous natural area is the Rock Ifach. You can enjoy its summer weather during the whole year and afterwords you also can have fun going out drinking bears and tasty sangria. Besides the people are very sociable http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Valencian-Community/Calpe/blog-326267.html During our excursion to Altea the program director pointed out a town a little ways up the coast named Calpe that had a huge rock towering out over the sea. He mentioned that it was a fun to hike up to the top of this rock where you could see amazing views of the entire Alicante province even including Ibiza on the clear days. Eager to get out and go hiking I made a plan to hike up the Peon d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Valencian-Community/Calpe/blog-323523.html Went and hike the sweet rock know as Penyal d'ifac Anybody that gets the chance to take a trip to this area and is able to do some easy to moderate hiking should climb it. It's 332 meters or 1090 feet to the top. The trail starts off on a average park trail that leads into a cave that was dug in 1918. The cave is a little difficult to walk through because the floor is not stable and its a bit http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Valencian-Community/Calpe/blog-133181.html So although not officially listed in the rules we decided that day 35 of the Amazing Race Sixeyes edition was to be a day off and we would attempt what normal people do when theyrsquore on holiday relax.Albeit a bit of a strange concept to us we did all manage to stay in bed until 9am. Kaspar of course had little say in the matter as he was firmly velcroed into his bed Its OK this is no http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Valencian-Community/Calpe/blog-58920.html